Hi There and welcome to the Hans Kohler Generator video building guide.

In order to build your generator you will need the following items: - one wooden board 40 by 40 cm - six neodymium cylindrical magnets 4 cm long and 1 cm in diameter - 20 m of enameled copper wire half a centimeter in diameter - five meters of thin insulated copper wire - two 100microfarads 50 volts polarized capacitors - two PVC pipes. one 4 cm in diameter and one 3 cm in diameter (both 8 cm long) - six 6.5 cm long screws with 0.5 cm diameter - two 12 cm long screws with 0.6 cm diameter - 28 male/female connectors - 12 pieces of wood 6/2/2 cm - one 4.5 volts light bulb - one electronic switch - one pencil - one permanent marker - one piece of paper (A4 or letter sized) - one bottle of acetone - one divider - one ruler/caliper - angle measurer - one soldering gun/iron - soldering wire - soldering paste - electric drill

- one 2 mm drill bit - one 7 mm drill bit - box cutter knife - pliers - insulating PVC tape - angle grinder - small hammer

First, draw a circle on the board using the divider. It has to be 4.5 cm radius, thus a 9 cm diameter. Draw 2 diameters using a ruler. The diameters have to be at a 90degreees angle at the center. The circle has 360 degrees. You will have to split it in 6. Using the angle measurer, mark 0, 60, 120, and 180 degrees on both sides of the circle just like you see in the video. Draw diameters connecting opposite marks on the circle using a permanent marker. Do so for better visibility of the lines. Draw tangents between each pair of lines. You will get the honey-cone shape at the end. Use a magnet to center it's position on the tangents you drew earlier. After that, connect the marks like you see in the video. To simplify the drawing, erase the marker lines that will not be useful any more. Do so using acetone exactly like you see in the video. Retrace the still needed lines if by accident you tainted them a little. It's time you started work on the coils. Cut a 4 cm wide strip of paper. Afterwards cut 6 pieces at 8 cm in length. Make two small cuts at one end just like you see in the video. Cut a 2.2 meter long copper wire and wrap it around the magnet using the technique shown. You will have to get 43 turns for each coil. You may get too many turns by mistake. before finishing each coil, count the turns. Add more if you didn't get to 43 or take some off if you passed it. For the coil not to loosen up, take a small string of insulating tape and wrap it around the end. You will have to arrange the magnet/coils in series. That means they should attract each other at any time in the final position on the board.

Use an angle grinder to dig small trenches on the board. The magnet assembly will slide through the length of those trenches. Take 6 of the 12 pieces of wood and place them on the board. Using the 2mm drill bit, drill a hole in each one right in the center. After you drill the holes, drive a drywall screw through each hole. Don't do it all the way, leave just a small tip on the other side for the piece of wood to slide on the trench. Using the 7 mm drill bit, drill one hole in each piece of wood. Don't drill it to deep, just enough for the head of a 0.5cm screw to fit in. After drilling all of them, use epoxy glue to glue the screws to the pieces of wood. Now, take the other 6 pieces of wood and using the 2mm drill bit, drill two holes in each piece. Do it like you see in the video, one for each side. Afterwards, use the 7mm drill bit to drill one hole in each piece. This time, drill it all the way. Arrange the pieces like in the video and drive drywall screws through the holes drilled with the 2mm drill bit. Be careful not to tighten the screws too much, for the wood may crack. Now drill 2 holes between each pair of wooden pieces. I drilled 4 in the video, but 2 will suffice. It's time you connect the coils to the wood assembly. Do it using cable ties. Use two for each coil. Make sure you tighten the ties for the magnets will be attracting one another. After placing all of them on the board, tighten the drywall screws like you see in the video. This way, the coils will stay on position. Drill another two holes between each pair of coils, but further down. Not so close to the center as the first ones. It's time to put the connectors in place. I used a hammer to beat them into the wood. Place 4 between each pair of coils. Take the 8 cm PVC pipes. Drill 3 hole in each one. One at one end, and two at the other. These will be two coils that slide into one another. Again wrap 43 turns on each of the two PVC pipes. Take a piece of plastic, drill two holes in it just like you see in the video. Also drill through the board, to make the support for the coils. Use epoxy glue to glue the small coil on the board. and superglue to glue the piece of plastic on the big coil. Now assemble the coils using the two 12cm screws. In order for electric current to pass through the system you will need to scrape off the enamel at each wire end. Tie the male wire connector to each end of the scraped wire, and place it in the female connector on the board.

It's time to solder all the connectors according to the schematics below:

After finishing soldering, connect the light bulb to the system. In the diagram, the light bulb will replace the voltmeter. Use duct tape to insulate the wires and stick them to the board. That way, they will cause minimal interference to the system's magnetic field. It's time to adjust the coil height and the magnets on the board. If needed, slide the magnets back and forward until the system starts to charge.

And Congratulations! Your own Kohler Generator is ready! In order to get more power from a system such as this, test it on both cloudy and clear days. Day and night also has fluctuations. And of course, after you finish your first generator, try building one on a larger scale. The measurements and dimensions are perfect, so you only need to scale them up for a bigger generator.